First make a list of all entensions in use. Then move each set of files with that extension.
- If you don't include "NF>1" then files without extensions will be included (not good).
- the "-u" flag of "sort" limits the list to unique values
- the "rmdir" on failure of "mv" is to remove bad.dirs.created.from.weirdly.named.files!!!
I have a unix directory with 500 plus files . When I do a ls -lR I can see ALL the files here . How can I sort this by the files extensions ?
I can't enter ls -lR *.ext1 *.ext2 *.ext3 etc in case I miss out some files . (2 Replies)
Hi all,
From one directory I need to fetch only files of type *.xls,*.csv,*.txt. I tried the find . -name '*.txt,*.csv,*.xls' -print. But it throws me error. Please do help me on this.
Thanks
Mahalakshmi.A (11 Replies)
I copied some files to another folder, and I want to change them from .doc extensions to .txt extensions. I tried using the cp and mv commands, but it didn't work. Is it possible to change file extensions with these commands, and if so how do I do it? I tried using the * wildcard (say cp *.doc... (1 Reply)
Hello !
i have a few files like ...
setup.001
setup.002
setup.003
setup.004
// to
setup.095
and i would like to rename those files to ...
setup.r01
setup.r02
setup.r03
setup.r04
// to
setup.r95 (7 Replies)
HI,
I have a bunch of files on my Linux system which do not have a file name extension in them. I want to process them with "sed" (using loop) but can't do so. Is there any way to give an extension to files which have no extension in them in Linux?
Currently files are like this:
cat
dog... (1 Reply)
Hi all, I am trying to make a for loop invoking files with different extensions (*.ugrd and *.vgrd) and I cant just make it work. Cant figure out how to load the files so as to use them in subsequent commands like the ones in this pseudo code. the files are arranged such that in one date for... (8 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have one .txt file which has filenames with various extensions e.g. .gz,.dat,.CTL,.xml. I want to sort all the filenames as per their extensions and would like to delete all the file names with .xml extension.
Please help.
PS : I am using Sun OS Generic_122300-60.
... (9 Replies)
Hi !
I wonder if anyone can help on this : I have a directory: /xyz that has the following files:
chsLog.107.20130603.gz
chsLog.115.20130603
chsLog.111.20130603.gz
chsLog.107.20130603
chsLog.115.20130603.gz
As you ca see there are two files that are the same but only with a minor... (10 Replies)
Hi,
i have two folders. Folder A has 1000+ files with just images named like :
01012015.png
01022015.png
etc. Folder B has much more files, part of them with same name as png files folder others not. Instead of folder A wich are only images, these are audio wav files.
I need to... (11 Replies)
Hello all!
I want to move several files foo.aux foo.log foo.pdf foo.tex to bar_foo.aux bar_foo.pdf bar_foo.tex
I am on tcsh
% mv foo.* bar_!#:1
is not working.
Thank you for your help
marek (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: marek
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rmdir
RMDIR(1) User Commands RMDIR(1)NAME
rmdir - remove empty directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
DESCRIPTION
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty
ignore each failure that is solely because a directory
is non-empty
-p, --parents
remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to 'rmdir a/b/c a/b a'
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every directory processed
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
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GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 RMDIR(1)